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[BigJonsson]

I loved National Treasure
Whoever knocks the story for being too far-fetched I say fuck you...

It's just as far-fetched as all the stories about the Free Masons and the like...

And for someone who has heard of the conspiracies before this movie was awesome

 

[DarienA]

People who knock National Treasure probably think the Da Vinci Code sucks too... fools.

 

[N Coward Parody]

People who knock National Treasure probably think the Da Vinci Code sucks too... fools.

But The DaVinci Code does suck.



*Noel Coward Parody

 

[levious]

i just came back from watching it and i must agree.. the movie was very fun.. and it never took itself seriously.. which is why getting technical about shit like the janitors closet is pretty stupid./

I don't know if that's directed at me or the review writer... but I just found the whole bit about sneaking into a secured area of the metro like that funny, especially with all the anal rules they have had even before 9/11 about bikes, food/drinks, and now ice chests. Like the old joke about it being harder to smuggle fresh fruit across the mexican border than illegals and drugs. And why can I not find amusment at the idea of an employee of the National Archives squeezing lemon juice on the Declaration of Independance?

I did not mean to demean the movie or say I was above such things, I've sat through League of Extrodinary Gentlemen... I'm not a movie elitist.

 

[Memles]

National Treasure is in at $35.4 Million, Incredibles grabbed $27 Million, thereabouts, just waiting on Spongebob Numbers to finalize it.

 

[AeroGod]

If a movie could make sense of that, then it is better than I'm expecting.

And :lol to the riddle instead of a map. If anyone knows it, could you post it in spoiler text? I'm really curious about this movie now.

Spoiler

"Heere at the Wall, beneth Parkington" is the riddle, or something like that. which refers to a church at Broadway and Wall St. in New York. Since Broadway use to be called Heere back in the day the treasure was located in the crypts at church there a teh corner, or thats how I remeber it. The Parkington bit refers to teh name on a tomb in the crypt. The break open the tomb and inside is a secret passage into some sorta mine type shaft that leads to another crypt. Inside the crypt is a keyhole, the key being rare ivory tobacco pipe they found on a cargo ship called the Charlotte on an ice drift in the North. The original clue being passed down in the Gates family was "the secret lies with Charlotte", which Cage's character finds out is the name of a ship. The tobacco pipe in question has an ink print roll on it that has another riddle on it that cage figures out indicates he next clue on the declaration. The treasure they find is thousands and thousands of years worth of historical items. Egyptian coffins, lost paintings, the scolls from the library of Alexandria and a bunch of other stuff.